27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
9:43 p.m.
i'd add to this: I use latex every day. Once you get the hang of it, its
much easier and more powerful than Word or anything else I've used.
If you want to get some experience with it, and want something closer to
WYSIWYG, you can try Scientific Word, which is sort of like Word on the
surface with Latex underneath which you can see. Not my favorite, but some
people like it. Google docs is also pretty good; have a look at the
equation editor as latex practice, which enables you to type latex code (or
use point and click menus) in one window and see the equation magically
appear while you type in the other.
Gary
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Maya Sen <msen at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hey folks,
In case you weren't able to make it to the R orientation session, I've
posted the material I went through on the course website (under "Sections"
and "R Orientation"). Feel free to peruse the code and work through it at
your own pace. There is no better way to familiarize yourself with R than to
just sit down and play around with it!
Also -- I ran out of time to discuss LaTeX. Essentially, LaTeX is an
attractive way to prepare documents that have mathematical expressions,
plots, and tables. The learning curve is at first steep, but learning how to
use LaTeX quickly pays off and you can soon produce professional-looking
articles and papers quite easily.
For more info on how to get started with LaTeX, feel free to check out
http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~blackwel/latex.html<http://people.fas.har…ml>,
which was put together by one of our colleagues in another statistics
course. I also posted in the "R Orientation" folder a sample LaTeX template
that you might want to use in writing up your problem sets.
As always, please use the list to bounce off questions and ideas. LaTeX is
not required for the course, but we use it ourselves, and I recommend at
least giving it a shot!
best, Maya
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